“Monsters University”
A look back at how Mike (Billy Crystal) and Sully (John Goodman) become scaring buddies.
This prequel approach is sweet, colorful and generally funny, but it lacks the emotional tug of the original film. It was far more fun, touching and interesting to watch Mike and Sully trying to keep baby Boo from harm than it is to watch them find their place on campus.
This movie’s loaded with enough action and animated fun that it will keep young viewers amused. Disappointing is the fact that after so many years, the story doesn’t live up to the technology.
Grade: B-
“RIPD”
Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds play cops dispatched to protect the living from those who refuse to move peacefully into the afterlife.
“RIPD” is DOA. This is nothing more than a cheap, lifeless knockoff of “Men In Black.” There are the recently dead instead of aliens and a cantankerous Jeff Bridges instead of Tommy Lee Jones.
Director Robert Schwentke obviously knew he had little to work with in the script by numerous writers who tried to adapt the Dark Horse comedy.
Grade: D-
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“Agatha Christie’s Poirot Series 9”: Four feature-length mysteries starring David Suchet.
“American Experience: War of the Worlds”: Film director and cinema historian Peter Bogdanovich, Orsen Welles’ daughter Chris Welles Feder, and other authors and experts talk about the radio show that scared the country.
“Damages: The Complete Series”: The 15-disc set includes every episode of the drama starring Glenn Close.
“Line of Duty Series 1”: BBC thriller starring Lennie James (“The Walking Dead”).
“The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts: Complete Collection”: Among the 54 celebrities roasted are Frank Sinatra, Wilt Chamberlin and Ronald Reagan.
“Margarita”: Cash-strapped yuppies set off a chain of events when they fire their teen-age daughter’s lesbian Mexican nanny.
Rick Bentley, The Fresno Bee (Fresno, Calif.)
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